18 Jun
2020
18 Jun
'20
11:40 p.m.
On Thursday 18 June 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
On Thursday 18 June 2020 15:28:46 BorgLabs - Kate
Draven wrote:
Hi Kate!
Yes, I do hate building from source, but I can do it; it's just that there
is no single "right" way to do it, so I waste a lot of time futzing with
it.
Since I haven't found too much online about similar problems, I would guess
that the problem lies not with the deb packages themselves, or it would
have been hunted down by now; but I could be wrong.
Regarding a purge of settings: Do you mean using "apt-get purge"
or "dpkg --purge"? or do you mean some kind of manual search? My hunch is
that the fault may be there, even though I haven't changed anything (not
even my socks) since about 2006 or so.
Bill
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No apt
anything bad human!
No soup for you!
I mean, go to your user directory ~/foo and look for references to vlc.
For example...
~/Bill/.vlc
~/Bill/.local/share/vlc
~/Bill/.config/vlc
and rename or delete the content of.
I would rename....
~/Bill/.vlc.old
~/Bill/.local/share/vlc.old
~/Bill/.config/vlc.old
and let vlc reload those directories/files with clean ones.
Obviously those directories may differ depending on distro and version etc.
You can also try creating a new blank user, login as such and try vlc from
there. If it launches then it's definitely a config/settings file problem.
Also try to start vlc as root. It could be a perms problem, though I doubt it.
good luck,
Kate
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This is
directed mostly to Nik (since I've heard him mention both
Devuan and VLC); but also to anybody else who might have some inkling
what is causing this issue.
VLC is (or would be) my media player of choice on most of my machines
or devices. I use it on my smartphone, and don't need anything else to
play music, movies, stream videos or radio. (I've tried other media
players, yes, but they are all inadequate by comparison, at least for
my own needs.) So many good things to say about VLC ... until about a
year or two ago.
Ever since Jessie it will start up, but then immediately crashes. I've
gone through looking for conflicts, but nothing obvious jumps out at
me.
Any suggestions about where to look, or what might be causing such an
issue?
Bill
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Hi Bill
the only thing I can think of is, purge all settings, config, cache etc.
and try again from the command line. See what it pops out.
If you are up to it, grab the source code and build it. If you get it
working like that, that means the deb package is likely faulty somehow.
Kate